"Bloomberg makes this comparison: $323 million in proposed U.S. aid would go to Colombia next year versus only $108 million that will go to Detroit.Most of the money flagged for Colombia will go to "peace and security." Meanwhile, Detroit (where it takes almost an hour for police to respond to 911 calls) has an 81 percent higher homicide rate than the South American country, according to Bloomberg.And Colombia is not even in the top five of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid. National Priority Projects reports that for fiscal year 2013, U.S. funding for foreign countries amounts to $23 billion - the number jumps to $37 billion when you add in our foreign military assistance."

between delegating and making yourself 'above it all' by deliberately creating the illusion that you care and yet distance yourself from it all........We're still waiting to see where he was when Benghazi was hit, Josh. Remember the Clinton campaign ad of 'who do you want to answer the phone at 3AM'? According to records and testimony submitted so far, BO never even GOT the call........now THAT'S really distancing yourself.

be answered, Josh, because BO refuses to come clean about what he was doing during the attack. It's on record that he wasn't even called by HC and there seems to be no record that HE contacted anybody......but went on to campaigning the next morning when it was over and done and four Americans, including his own appointee to that Embassy, were dead. Pretty cold-blooded........nothing you could ever say about Bush. Keep spinning away, Josh......BO delegated everything about that attack to underlings because he was and continues to be in way over his head and paygrade.

And he's doing it again with Detroit.....staying silent after bragging during his campaign about how he 'saved' Detroit and he's got egg all over his face again.

In either case, he wants to make it less attractive to outsource, which is a good thing for American jobs. It's less good for American CEOs, which is the group Mitt Romney seemed most interested in protecting.

Why not try and have a government that uses positive incentives that will encourage more people to seek financial success than just punish the few who find a way? Don't you have a job because someone else was successful in building a business? Are you willing to ask your company officers if lowering business related taxes would be an inducement to expand here rather than abroad?...or if increasing them would achieve the opposite result?

Republicans gave corporations a massive tax break offer to bring their monies back from overseas, the market was flooded with billions of dollars in new business and jobs. BO's policy would still keep the corporate tax rate high and the penalties for bringing that money back only keeps it overseas. And yet liberals refuse to see that lower corporate taxes works for the country's economic woes and their only answer to increase revenue is not is having huge numbers of people going back to work and paying into the system, but rather increase the tax burden on the top which prevents those companies to expand and hire.

said that the quality of GM cars has actually improved but some people know believe there was no way they could get worse. After having driven a few as company vehicles, that "some people" includes myself.

My experiences with them were mostly from renting them, and I couldn't stand most of them. Supposedly there are a few models now that are worthy of consideration. I don't own a car these days and I'm not in the market for one, so it's of no personal interest to me, but I still like to keep up on what's out there.

fails once again to live up to his promises and the wishes of his constituents. I've not said I disagree with doing nothing for Detroit. I think Detroit will have to completely collapse or the state go into the city and basically take it over and run it, tossing out the corrupt political crowd that's still playing around in it at the time. Being that the population is 80% black now, I suspect in order to not get caught into "the man" taking control from us, Detroit will just be left to rot and fester in their own decadent juices.

If someone who back stabs his friends and tells lies all the time, almost by accident it seems, does something the way you would want it done, does that get your approval for HIM, or just in that one instance and reserved to what is being done? Does he suddenly lose all his dis-qualifiers simply because something he did finally pleased you? Are you then under the impression that's the reason he did it?

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